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Modern browsers can add all sorts of functionality beyond their stock feature set through the use of extensions. From security enhancements, to productivity-centric tools, utilitarian plug-ins for all sorts of niches and more. But while there are a few well-known…

Rumors surfaced last September that Clippy’s spiritual successor (actually named Clippit) was slated to appear in the next version of Office, known as Office 16. At that time, we were told that it would arrive as a modified version of…

Dropbox has been a mainstay in the cloud storage market for a while now, having slowly rolled out additional features through updates. It is introducing another such feature that will likely be of use to those who like to work…

Destructive messaging applications like Snapchat and Wickr grant its users some peace of mind with regard to privacy but they all share a common weakness in that they allow the recipient to capture screenshots. Although most apps do notify the sender…

Apple has been working overtime to build an entirely new streaming music service in the wake of its $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics. The as-yet unnamed service is said to be entirely Apple-designed but will utilize the technology and…

Google has quietly launched the first major update to its newest mobile operating system. Android 5.1 Lollipop was first spotted on Google’s Android One website (references to it have since been removed) and has even shown up on some users’…

Microsoft has reportedly agreed to purchase calendar apps maker Sunrise in what would be the second acquisition of a top mobile application maker in just a few months. The Redmond-based company is said to have paid more than $100 million…

Several apps available in the Google Play Store that have been downloaded by a large number of users are harboring a form of malware that waits days or weeks until turning the adware on, popping up advertisements or trying to trick users…

I’ve been using Android Wear on a daily basis over the last month and found that I love receiving notifications directly on my wrist, or being able to quicly voice search stuff on the web. But beyond some basic app functionality, Google's smartwatch platform can't do that much. Here are 10 features that should be included in the next generation of Android Wear, most of which don’t even require hardware updates.

Just last week, Adobe issued fixes for a couple of zero-day Flash Player bugs, and now the company is warning users of another zero-day vulnerability that's being exploited in the wild. The bug in question, which is being tracked as CVE-2015-0313 in the…

Google has updated its Android platform versions page, and the good news is that Android 5.0 Lollipop, the company's latest version of the mobile operating system, is finally on the official radar -- as of February 2, around 1.6 percent…

Dell has been offering Ubuntu as an alternative to Windows on a handful of its systems over the past few years. No, they’re adding one more to the list: the recently released and highly praised Dell XPS 13 refresh. A…

Third-party app support has finally arrived for Google Now, the search giant’s predictive personal assistant. As of now, the Google app on Android can pull in information from 40 different apps and present them as Now cards that can be…

Image hosting site Imgur wants to revolutionize the GIF with its brand new conversion process. Now the new video to GIF functionality is up and running, offering some of the best looking looped animations we have seen online.

Not everyone can get away with pirating Adobe products, especially when it comes to a major clothing retailer like Forever 21. In a lawsuit from Adobe that was recently filed in a California District Court, the company alleges that Forever…

Tesla’s Model S P85D has the luxury you’d expect from a high-end sedan and the kind of straight-line performance that can take your breath away. Because of its versatility, it appeals to all sorts of people including car enthusiasts.
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In a pretty incredible feat of coding, a programmer named Baudsurfer has managed to squeeze an entire, playable game of chess into a single 487 byte program. Unless your computer's storage drive is filled to the brim, you'll definitely be able…

Microsoft has made two app-related announcements today, the first of which concerns their widely used email application, Outlook. For the first time, Outlook will be available on iOS and Android thanks to their acquisition of mobile email startup Acompli, which…

Microsoft is currently in the process of developing a new browser for Windows 10 codenamed 'Spartan', which will be a revamped and modernized version of Internet Explorer. One of the new features set to be included with the browser, finally,…

HTML5 is now the default setting for video playback on YouTube when using Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8 and beta versions of Firefox. If you needed any more evidence to support the claim that Flash is dead, it doesn’t get…

Twenty years is an eternity in tech time but that’s how long it’s been since Microsoft first introduced Internet Explorer. With nearly a dozen major revisions under its belt, the venerable web browser carries a legacy that few have been…

Any new devices released with Windows 10 on board will need to have a display at least eight inches in size to gain access to the desktop and desktop applications, Joe Belfiore confirmed through Twitter.

Apple turned in another banner year in 2014 in terms of both hardware and software sales. But it wasn’t just the Cupertino-based company that was bringing home the bacon as App Store developers collectively raked in more than $10 billion…